イザヤ書 18

1 唉エテオピアの河の彼方なるさやさやと羽音のきこゆる地

Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

2 この地蒹のふねを水にうかべ海路より使者をつかはさんとてその使者にいへらく 疾走る使よなんぢら河々の流のわかるる國にゆけ丈たかく肌なめらかなる 始めより今にいたるまで懼るべく繩もてはかり人を踐にじる民にゆけ

That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, all of you swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning until now; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

3 すべて世にをるもの地にすむものよ 山のうへに旗のたつとき汝等これを見ラッパの鳴響くときなんぢら之をきけ

All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see all of you, when he lifts up an explicit sign on the mountains; and when he blows a trumpet, hear all of you.

4 そはヱホバわれに如此いひ給へりいはく 空はれわたり日てり收穫の熱むしてつゆけき雲のたるる間 われわが居所にしづかに居てながめん

For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

5 收穫のまへにその芽またく生その花ぶだうとなりて熟せんとするとき かれ鎌をもて蔓をかり枝をきり去ん

For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

6 斯てみな山のたけきとりと地の獸とになげあたへらるべし 猛鳥そのうへにて夏をすごし地のけものその上にて冬をわたらん

They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

7 そのとき河々の流のわかるる國の丈たかく肌なめらかなる 始めより今にいたるまで懼るべく繩もてはかり人をふみにじる民より 萬軍のヱホバにささぐる禮物をたづさへて 萬軍のヱホバの聖名のところシオンの山にきたるべし

In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning until now; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.